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After a year of development, the release of the Arcan 0.7 desktop engine has been published, which combines a display server, multimedia framework, and game engine for processing 3D graphics. Arcan can be used to create various graphical systems – from user interfaces for embedded applications to standalone desktop environments. Among other things, the three-dimensional workspace Safespaces for virtual reality systems is built on Arcan and […]
The ALT Workstation 11.0 alpha version for p11 (Salvia) is available. Download the x86_64 AArch64 image. Innovations The image is built on kernels 6.12 and 6.6 (only on AArch64). It uses the GNOME 47.2 desktop environment, libadwaita 1.4.2, GTK4 4.16.7. Package selection during installation occurs before disk partitioning. Installation groups have been revamped. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of the Ghostty 1.0.0 terminal emulator has been announced, utilizing GPU acceleration for rendering content. The project is developed by Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of projects such as Vagrant and Terraform. The author of Ghostty aims to embody three qualities in the new terminal emulator — high performance, extensive functionality, and an interface that looks native to each supported platform. The project code is written […]
The first alpha release of the SerpentOS distribution has been introduced, featuring its own package manager moss and an atomic update model. The developers present Serpent OS as the next step in the evolution of Linux distributions. The project is being developed by the original team behind the Solus distribution, which includes Ikey Doherty — the creator of Solus, and Joshua Strobl — a key developer of the desktop environment […]
The first testing release of the FixBrowser web browser has been published, designed for low resource consumption and privacy. The browser is developed from scratch and fundamentally does not support JavaScript execution, yet it allows the use of websites relying on JavaScript. The code is written in C and FixScript, and is distributed under the ZLIB license. Ready builds have been created for Linux (GTK2) and Windows. Plans are in place for […]
The 4MLinux 47.0 release is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a derivative of other projects and utilizes a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux can be used both as a live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as a system for recovery from failures and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB […]
On December 19 and 20, releases 4.8.0 and 4.8.1 of the cross-platform RSS client, podcast player, and Gemini protocol client RSS Guard were made, written in C++ using the Qt framework (version 5 or 6) and distributed under the GPL 3.0 license. Change log: Added support for the Gemini protocol and gemtext markup format. Added the ability to pause feed retrieval. Links to […]
After a year of development, the free cross-platform interpreter for classic adventures, ScummVM 2.9.0, has been released, which replaces executable files for games and allows many classic games to be run on platforms for which they were not originally intended. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. More than 340 adventures are supported, including games from LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, Revolution Software, Cyan, and Sierra, […]
After 6 months of development, the project postmarketOS 24.12 has been released, advancing the Linux distribution for mobile devices, based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set. The project's goal is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones and tablets that is independent of the official firmware support lifecycle and not tied to typical solutions of the main industry players. Builds […]
The release of Siduction 2024.1 has been announced, a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on the Debian Sid (unstable) package base. Siduction split off from the Aptosid project in 2011 due to the desire to provide fresh versions of KDE from the experimental Qt-KDE repository. Aptosid, in turn, split from the Sidux distribution in 2010 due to developer conflicts. Builds based on KDE are available for download (3.5 […
After three months of development, version 24.4 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium has been released. Written in C++ using the Qt framework (supporting versions 5 and 6) and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license. Major changes include: Improved rendering of deep space objects. Enhanced telescope control plugin; transitioning to use the INDI library v2.1.1. Updated sky cultures. Updated location list. Updated […
The release of the CachyOS 241221 distribution has been published, based on the Arch Linux package base and utilizing a continuous update delivery model. The distribution is notable for including optimizations to improve performance and providing the ability to install various desktop environments. In addition to the default KDE-based environment, GNOME, Xfce, i3WM, Wayfire, LXQT, OpenBox, Cinnamon, Cosmic, UKUI, LXDE, Mate, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland are also available for installation […
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